Learn about the improved color management and interoperability between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for consistent color handling in your projects.
After Effects does not have the same HDR monitoring capabilities as Premiere Pro. As we refine HDR monitoring in After Effects, you'll notice more consistency between both apps when working in SDR. When working in HDR, your round-tripped Dynamic Link After Effects composition will look as expected in Premiere Pro but may appear different in After Effects.
The new color management in Premiere Pro enables smoother interoperability and color consistency for sequence clips round-tripping between Premiere Pro and After Effects whenever you use Replace with After Effects composition.
As you work, keep the following in mind:
- Premiere Pro—After Effects interoperability works with every media format (except some still formats like PNG, TIFF, EXR, and JPEG, in which cases you might not see color consistency to the exact same level) supported in Premiere Pro, with every available sequence working color space.
- If you have used Override Media Color Space or Preserve RGB in the Premiere Pro sequence, they will be passed to the After Effects composition.
- If you have applied an LUT to a clip in Premiere Pro via Lumetri Color, that LUT will be passed to the After Effects composition. If you have applied LUT via Modify > Color, then the LUT will not be passed to the After Effects composition.
- If you have applied Input Tone Mapping or Input Gamut Compression to clip in Premiere Pro, then these settings will be passed to the After Effects composition. If you have applied Output Tone Mapping or Output Gamut Compression to clip in Premiere Pro, then these settings will not be passed to the After Effects composition.
- If you have added graphics, color matte, or shapes in the timeline in Premiere Pro, then those will not follow color consistency in the round-tripped clips between After Effects and Premiere Pro.
- If you have After Effects open with a project having different color settings compared to Premiere Pro sequence, and then you choose the Replace with After Effects composition option, whether or not you get consistent clip color depends on the color space of your Premiere Pro sequence and the project settings of the currently open After Effects project. If the two don't match, you’ll receive a warning.
While Premiere Pro has sequence-based color settings, changing the color settings in After Effects will affect the whole project.
- Improvements to color consistency in the outputs sent to Adobe Media Encoder for rendering from After Effects have also been made.
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